The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1902 - BREAKING: Ex-CNN Host Don Lemon Arrested After Minnesota Church Protest
30 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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They used to love them. Now they hate them. What changed? And Michelle Obama, who has never spoken in public without complaining, goes viral for claiming that black women just never have the chance to articulate their pain. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. There is breaking news. Maybe I'll just do my whole show on this story.
It's so beautifully delightful. Don Lemon of CNN fame, of CNN infamy, former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who recently went viral for conspiring with a mob to invade a church during a worship service, has just been arrested by the federal government. We will get to that wonderful story momentarily. Maybe we'll extend the show. We'll just make it a big party. We'll get to that momentarily.
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Chapter 2: What happened to Don Lemon during the Minnesota church protest?
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Don Lemon arrested by feds for role in the Minnesota church protest. Is it too early to have a cigar? This is something I've been calling for for a little while now. Maybe during one of our clips, maybe I'll spark up a cigar. This is very good news. And I wasn't sure. Look, I'm obviously a supporter of the administration, big Trump supporter. I say they get it right 99.7% of the time.
There have been a few things where I've said, I don't agree with that or that's not quite right. I did not think they were going to do it. I feared that the administration thought, look, we have these ringleaders dead to rights on the Minnesota invading a church, screaming in the faces of kids, violating the FACE Act. We got those guys dead to rights.
Don Lemon is going to claim some kind of journalist exemption, First Amendment protection, and pretend that he was merely a reporter covering the event rather than one of the conspirators of the event. And so I thought the feds had said, you know what? Never mind. We're not going to go there. Ladies and gentlemen, they got him.
According to Lemon's attorney, Abby Lowell, he was arrested and said, quote, the First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don Lemon to be doing this work, to be doing this work. What is this work?
This work is to violate federal law by disrupting church services, screaming in the faces of little kids. What is this work? So you knew that was going to be the defense, First Amendment. However, this is a bogus defense. You cannot commit a crime and then get off the hook because you claim to have been a journalist while committing the crime. That's what he's trying to do.
He's saying, yes, I conspired with this mob. Yes, I busted into a church and interrupted the church service in violation of federal law, namely the FACE Act, which really only exists to protect abortion clinics. But to get it passed, the liberals had to concede that it would also protect churches. I'm going to do all those things, but I'm going to hold a camera while I do it.
So I'm a journalist, so you can't arrest me. It'd be like saying, you know, you load up your gun. You go over to your enemy's house. You pull out the weapon, point it to his head. You say, I'm going to get you, you dirty, rotten bum. I'm finally going to kill you. But hold on one second.
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Chapter 3: Why did the House Democrat Leader call for Kristi Noem's murder?
How high can I get? That's what that's what the journalists so-called are doing. Let's see what I can get away with. Can I violate federal law? Can I make a, can I humiliate the federal government in that way? Can I, the activists in the streets, can I punch a cop? Can I kick in his taillight? Can I, can I, can I? How far can I push it before they shoot? Can I drive my car into him?
How far can I push it before the guy shoots me? And so you have to lay down the law. You have to, just like daddy talking to a toddler, you have to establish the standards. One, for the purpose of justice, but two, to prevent these things from spiraling even further out of control. What Don Lemon did victimized the members of that church.
What Don Lemon personally did victimized parents and little kids in that church. This mob that Lemon allegedly conspired with blocked off the kids in Sunday school from their parents. This mob shrieked in the faces of the little kids who were crying, your parents are Nazis and they're going to burn in hell. And they didn't just use naughty words, they violated federal law.
As a matter of justice for the community and for the victims in the church, Don Lemon needs to be put on trial. And it would be great if he could face some jail time. We'll see the extent of this. Let's not forget pro-life grannies have been thrown in the clink for months and years to
for violations of the FACE Act because they were praying outside of abortion clinics, demonstrating peaceably at abortion clinics. What Don Lemon did is a thousand times worse. And if the pro-life granny is going to rot for years in the prison, I want Don Lemon to rot twice as long. Okay, wonderful news. I'm looking forward to whenever I get to my next clip so I can spark up this cigar.
Okay, well, here's the next clip. It's not just the lunatic former journalists like Don Lemon. who's got a history of bad behavior. Let's not forget that widely publicized event at Murph's Bar in Sag Harbor, where he's accused of sexually assaulting someone. He's got a lot of problems. It's par for the course with journalists. You see this in government too.
Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democrat leader of the House, he took over after Nancy Pelosi left. Hakeem Jeffries is now just casually calling for the murder of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
This is disgraceful. She's got to go. We are dead serious. She needs to be put on ice permanently. She's got to go. And by the way, she's not the only one.
She's got to be put on ice permanently. You get the pun. This is Hakeem Jeffrey is doing. This is a poetry slam at the House. She's got to be put on ice permanently. Huh? No more Mr. Nice. Yeah. So it's a pun. Do you get it on the law enforcement agency? But that phrase has a meaning. That phrase has two meanings. To be put on ice. I mean, one of two things.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Michelle Obama's statement about black women?
After it needs to be put on ice permanently. That means she needs to be killed. And he says she's not the only one. Now, if this were just a one-off statement, you might say, okay, this guy's a hothead. He's a lunatic. Maybe he didn't really mean it. Maybe he doesn't know what that phrase means. Maybe he's functionally illiterate. I don't know. Whatever. Maybe. All of those things are plausible.
In the context of the Democrat Party today, though, which I read the statistics yesterday, largely, in some cases, half the party or more, supports political violence, wishes Trump had been assassinated, wishes the assassin hadn't missed, thinks that political violence could be justified against conservatives, maybe excused or justified or celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
In that world, you got to take this very, very seriously. And he's not the only one. Move out of DC, move out of the federal government, go to Philly. The district attorney of Philadelphia is promising to hunt down run-of-the-mill ice agents, just regular federal cops to hunt them down for decades. We'll get to that momentarily first, though. I want to tell you about Toops & Co. Organics.
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Chapter 5: How does the Trump administration respond to protests and law enforcement issues?
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This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That's what they are. In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice.
So he justifies it by saying this is what the Israelis did to the Nazis, which makes perfect sense because the Libs have been calling all of us, anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton Nazis for many, many years. But notice here, he's not just saying we're going to imprison the president, Donald Trump.
That itself was a complete upending of the political order, of precedent, a total destabilization of our political order. But they did that. They already did that. They already tried to put him in prison multiple times. They justified killing him multiple times. They tried to kick him off the ballot because they knew he was going to get reelected. Happily, those things didn't work.
Now they're taking a step further. They're not even calling for the arrest of presidents and former presidents. They're calling for the arrest of rank-and-file cops simply for enforcing the laws that Congress passed many decades ago. Because they're Nazis, apparently. So this guy's a Soros DA, no surprise. Got a lot, a lot of money from George Soros. He's one of those radicals.
But there are a lot of these people. And I think they mean it. It's not just the wacko DAs. The new governor of New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, had this to say.
I've already met with AG. We are putting out information on helping New Jerseyans know their rights. We are not going to allow any ICE raids to be staged from state properties. And we are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people. Like, if you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out. We want to know.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the FACE Act in recent arrests?
And then finally, the Trump admin arrests people for the church attack. So yeah, well, they're not going to arrest Don Lemon. And I'll tell you, I didn't know if they were going to arrest Don Lemon. I hope they would. I didn't hit the administration. And then what happens? They make good. Doomer is destroyed again. Panic hands destroyed yet again. How are they still breathing those panic hands?
They've been so obliterated. Plan trusters totally vindicated. This is good. This is a good day. Now. Just to give us a hint of what happens if we ever lose elections, here's Pramila Jayapal, one of my favorite members on the other side in the House, describing what the Democrats will do if they get the gavel.
We really need to, as soon as we get the gavels back, we have to dismantle DHS and ICE and CBP. And we have to reconstruct them to what they really should be doing. Remember, don't let people tell you that these are agencies that have always existed and they need to exist. They didn't exist before 9-11.
Chapter 7: How are body cameras viewed differently by liberals now?
They didn't exist before 9-11. We have to abolish ICE. This is a mainstream member of the House. We have to abolish ICE. And ICE didn't always exist. They didn't exist before 9-11. Okay. That's true. ICE was founded, I think, in 2003. But there was an agency that dealt with immigration enforcement before ICE. Do you know what it was called? It was called INS.
Some of the listeners will be too young to remember INS. Do you know what INS was? It was just ICE. It was just ICE, but spelled differently. You know how we have the CIA? The CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the CIA didn't always exist. Before the end of the Second World War, there was no CIA. There was something called the OSS, the Office of Special Services.
That was just the CIA. Things get renamed. They're reconstituted. But the tasks that they accomplish remain basically the same. So when she says, we're going to abolish ICE. When the Democrats say, we got to abolish ICE. ICE isn't even that old. We got to abolish ICE. You say, okay, are you just going to bring back INS then?
And keep border patrol to enforce the law to arrest these guys and deport them. Is that what you want? Why do we need to abolish ICE? Ask that question. Why is it that we need to abolish ICE? What is it about ICE that you want to abolish? that would not equally exist under INS or some other version of immigration enforcement. It is not some quirk of ICE.
It is not that they just don't like the uniforms. It is not that they don't like this or that. The thing they don't like about ICE, the reason they want to abolish ICE, is because they want to abolish immigration enforcement. But we have always had immigration law enforcement in this country. What the Democrats want to do is not restore some older form of immigration enforcement.
They want to abolish it altogether. They've been pretty open about that. They opened up our border under Biden. Actions speak louder than words. They brought in 3 million illegals a year. They're now protesting in the streets, getting their lemmings killed, encouraging them to obstruct law enforcement, to protect face tattooed rapists from Venezuela and fraudster Somalis.
They want to abolish ICE because they want to abolish immigration enforcement, which is as radical a proposal as we've ever had. Just ask them that. Okay, we're going to bring back INS. That sounds great. Now, speaking of the police, there's something really, really beautiful about sometimes giving the libs what they want. On the case of abolishing ICE, we should not.
That would be too catastrophic. But sometimes the libs wish for things that they should not wish for. They need to be careful of what they wish for. One of the things libs wished for for a very long time was body cameras. Now, prominent liberals are coming out against body cameras. What changed? We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you about Van Man.
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Chapter 8: What are the consequences of immigration policies discussed in this episode?
He's appeared on Democracy Now! to explain why body cams on cops are terrible.
They said, in the wake of Michael Brown, we'll market it to low information people in the public, to well-meaning liberal people. We'll market it as accountability and transparency. And so they totally shifted. And then they were able to get hundreds of millions of dollars toward their goal of outfitting every single cop in the United States
with a mobile surveillance camera that the police control. They control when it's on, when it's off, what it captures. When something is captured, it's released to the public. So if the police capture, let's say, an undocumented immigrant committing some crime, that's out on Fox News and the New York Post within hours.
But if they capture the police doing something horrific, the public may never see that video. So body cameras are a mirage. And as I write in the Copaganda book, and it's really critical to understand exactly how it happens,
Not only do they not reduce police violence, but they have been an essential propaganda tool in convincing so many well-meaning people across our society that the authorities care about police violence, that they want accountability, that they're doing something right.
And it distracts people from the core important kinds of changes that we need, which is to reduce the size and power of these bureaucracies.
Oh, yeah. Hold on. He opens up, he goes, they push for these body cameras. What those body cameras do is they're a propaganda tool. Who is they, though? To quote Kanye West, who is they, though? What do you mean they were pushing for body cameras? The people who pushed for body cameras were the Democrats. It was only the Democrats. He said, we need body cameras.
Now, some Republicans were okay with it. But in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, which was completely justified, When the gentle giant, Michael Brown, he was this young man who robbed a store and then harassed a cop, grabbed a cop's gun, actually discharged it in the car, according to grand juries and eyewitnesses, then walked away and then charged at the cop.
Only then did the cop shoot him. And then the Democrats made up out of whole cloth a story about how Michael Brown was a sweet little boy who put his hands up and said, hands up, don't shoot. And the cop just executed him like the grand cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Just a complete fictional narrative. So the Dems said, we need body cameras on cops. And some Republicans said, no, we don't.
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